Stalinist architecture
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Stalinist architecture, mostly known in the former Eastern Bloc as Stalinist style or socialist classicism, is a leading movement in architecture, monumental, and decorative art in the USSR and other
The main building of Moscow State University
Hotel Ukraina, one of "Stalin's high-rises"
Wet stucco over masonry. Early elite block, Patriarch Ponds, Moscow. Art deco adaptation by Vladimir Vladimirov
The Moscow Canal
The Palace of Culture and Science is a notable high-rise building in central Warsaw, Poland. With a total height of 237 metres, it is the second tallest building in both Warsaw and Poland, the eighth
Stalinist architecture
…The skyscrapers project exceeded 500,000 square meters (at a greater cost per meter) Similar skyscrapers were built in Warsaw, Bucharest, and Riga; the tower in Kiev was completed without crown and steeple. The upward surge of the high-rises, publicised since 1947, was recreated…
Palace of Culture and Science in 2019
The Palace under construction in 1953
Workers on the building, 1954
The Palace of Culture and Science in 1960